Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Laura Vandervoort

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Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Laura Vandervoort

Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Laura Vandervoort

A guy sees an empty seat at the Stanley Cup finals. He asks the guy seated next to it why, and he says, "It was my wife's, but she died."

The guy asks, "Couldn't you have invited a friend?"

The other guy says, "They're all at the funeral."

About the Jokester:

Twenty-seven-year-old Laura Vandervoort was born tough. As a kid, she survived a bout with meningitis. Soon after, the Toronto native lived through something even more harrowing: child acting. On Goosebumps, in which she played a girl trapped in a board game, the only instruction she was given was "You're worried. You're breathing." "We were 13 and didn't know how to pace ourselves," she says, "so we'd hyperventilate and black out." She went on to breathe normally in starring roles as Supergirl in Smallville and as alien royalty in the short-lived but highly praised sci-fi series V. And this summer, she appears alongside Mark Wahlberg in Ted (out July 13), about a man who lives with his talking teddy bear. When you watch her, you'll be forgiven for hyperventilating.

*Esquire cannot guarantee that this joke will be funny to everyone. (But it's pretty good.)

I was born in Toronto, north York. And my family still lives there. Actually, at a couple of weeks old, I contracted meningitis — I was very sick for a few months of my life. They didn't think I was going to make it, and it was a whole — it was tough for my parents. But I did make it.

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